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December 5, 2008, Friday

''My father, Alphonse W. Salomone Jr., was the Plaza's general manager and managing director during the 1960s. ... He was a close friend and confidant of Kay Thompson's and she immortalized him in the first and last 'Eloise' books. He realized the...

To the Editor: Anita Gates, repeating a now familiar tale, writes that Kay Thompson hated the 1956 ''Playhouse 90'' adaptation of her book ''Eloise'' so much ''that she vowed that neither movies nor television would ever put their filthy hands on...

May 25, 2003, Sunday

I NEVER saw New York in the 50's. Not in person. But I know it was a grand place, with smiling doormen, clean subways and lovable taxi drivers, a city of postwar confidence and prewar manners. Women wore gloves and hats to the office. New Yorkers...

Here's what this movie is not Me ELOISE Ooooooooo I absolutely loathe Disney ''Eloise at the Plaza,'' an ABC made-for-television movie based on Kay Thompson's famous book, does look like the original. Its fidelity to Hilary Knight's droll...